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The Backroom Powerhouse: Leading Technical Services in Turbulent Times

Date: Saturday, June 26

Time: 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Location: Hilton Washington (1919 Connecticut Avenue), Lincoln Room

 

How do technical services managers and administrators manage up, out, and across in challenging financial and political times?  Given the complexity of the resources and systems we manage, how do we ensure we are communicating effectively with our colleagues in other parts of the library?  What is reasonable for being asked to do more with less?  With fewer and fewer staff, how do we ensure staff keep their skills flexible for the future?  How do we ensure that libraries have a seat at the decision making table with respect to how we do business, whether that be issues regarding our funding, compliance with municipal or state regulations, or negotiating large business contracts?    

 

Particularly relevant to librarians new to the field, this session will address some of the creative ways that leaders of varying levels of authority within Technical Services navigate political and economic challenges to successfully acquire or develop the material and human resources needed to succeed.

 

Speakers include:

Andrea Kappler

Cataloging Manager

Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

Communicating to Collaborate: Moving Forward Despite Looming Budget Cuts

 

Emily Bergman

Head of Collections and Technical Services       
Occidental College Library         

From Technical Services to Director and Back Again:  Thoughts from an Interim Library Director

 

Andrew White

Interim Dean and Director of Libraries
Director, Health Sciences Library

Stonybrook University

New Chancellor, New President, and You're Interim Library Dean .... What's the Plan?

 

Raymond Santiago

Director

Miami-Dade Public Library System

Responding to Outside Pressures – Flexibility is the Key

 

 

Lila (Angie) Ohler

Head of Acquisitions

McKeldin Library

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

301 405-9308 (phone)

301 314-1200 (fax)

lohler@umd.edu